@Clueless Neophyte— EXACTLY. Never have I thought of Larry King as funny or even noteworthy enough to parody, and he definitely doesn't have serious newsman gravitas, so I don't know what the hell the Daily Show will be able to get out of this besides suspenders humor.

I don't know how I feel about this
I feel like the Daily Show has enough occasional contributors without adding someone as milquetoast as Larry King. Hopefully any deal he makes won't mean less time for Kristen Schaal, Larry Wilmore and John Hodgman.

Good call on Ron Swanson. "My father used to put Wild Turkey on his cornflakes."

Leslie Knope
Drunk Leslie is my favorite character on Parks and Rec, with The Practice Date as my favorite episode where she appears: "He wants me. I can totally tell that he wants me." Amy Poehler and Rashida Jones are great at drunk acting, so hopefully we'll get some more episodes at the Snakehole this season.

Thanks. I'll have a drink (or ten) for you at the wake

I'm right there with you. My grandma died yesterday after a long and painful illness and this week is going to be a shit sandwich of grief, driving, family drama, and drinking, not to mention catholicism. Knowing that there's a new Radiohead album at the end of this is a nice thought.

Aidan the vampire's ugly mug
The actor for Aidan's face is distracting weird-looking to me. He looks as if someone made a wax reproduction of robert pattison's face and then left it out in the sun too long. At least the BBC's Mitchell wasn't obviously cast to be a Twilight stand-in. UGH.

@Jcar— The second series is a bit uneven but they absolutely expand on the afterlife mystery. The ghost is chased nearly all season by the other side, which leads to some pretty great moments of legitimate horror and is a huge part of the cliffhanger of the series.

@Prankster: Cosigned. I barely made it out of VotD a Doctor Who fan, let alone able to say anything nice about it. I may have actually skipped most of it because it was so dire. The only other Christmas special I liked was the last 15 minutes of the Christmas Invasion, with the David Tennant tour de force and all.

He is so ridiculously witty.. I could listen to him tell stories about his incredibly dorky childhood and awkward adulthood for days.

Damn, what a great observation, Nenechan. That can't be merely a coincidence— Moffat was too deliberate about Amelia and Amy's ages for that to be entirely an accident. Mind = blown.

Tim Canterbury
Martin Freeman was so good in the scenes where he basically wants to kill himself. Tim's soul-crushing defeats were so perfectly realized in his facial expressions, let alone the reaction shots. The scene on Red Nose day where Dawn kisses him for a pound gets me every time, that and the end of series…

Or Mother lover! *ends gratuitous Arrested Development reference*

I concur.

When Tobias plays George Bluth in the tv miniseries, the narrator constantly disparages the sub-par narration it had.
"What Dave Attell was trying to portray was the fact that Tobias was never able to be completely naked, but it was lost on the audience due to the narrator's shoddy delivery. "

Ugh, yeah. The edits were ridiculous, really disjounted and abrupt. I suspect entire segments were cut to get the whole thing down to 40 minutes.

Entertaining Enough
I used to watch this on BBCAmerica when I had insomnia. The best episode I've seen is when they had to race ancient Winnebagos— seeing the siding fall off an RV barely going 60mph is quite hilarious at 3am.